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“She Was a Relentless Spirit,”
Roanoke
(Virginia)
Times and World-News
, May 4, 1997.
     

Chapter 7: Number 29
     
    1 . Maya Angelou, “They Went Home,” in
Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water ’fore I Diiie
(New York, Random House, 1971), 4.
     
    2 . Alan Pollock with James A. Riley, ed.,
Barnstorming to Heaven: Syd Pollock and His Great Black Teams
(Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2006), 46.
     
    3 .
Los Angeles Weekly
, February 28, 1953.
     
    4 . Toni Stone interview with Bill Kruissink, March 27, 1996. National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, Inc., Cooperstown, NY.
     
    5 . Maria Bartlow-Reed interview with the author, March 10, 2008.
     
    6 . Toni Stone interview with Bill Kruissink.
     
    7 . Pollock, 138.
     
    8 . Ibid., 153–154.
     
    9 . D. L. Stanley, “Women in Negro Baseball League,”
Atlanta Inquirer
, April 28, 2001.
     
    10 . Pollock, 222.
     
    11 .
Pittsburgh Courier
, April 25, 1953.
     
    12 . “Lady Ball Player,”
Ebony
, July 1953, 51.
     
    13 .
Chicago Defender
, February 21, 1953.
     
    14 . Mark Ribowsky,
Josh Gibson: The Power and the Darkness
(Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004), 283.
     
    15 . Toni Stone interview with Bill Kruissink; Baltimore
Afro-American
, July 17, 1954.
     
    16 . “The Gal on Second Base,”
Our World,
Vol. 8, No. 7, July 1953.
     
    17 . “Lady Ball Player,” 50.
     
    18 . Ibid., 48.
     
    19 . Ibid., 51.
     
    20 . Letter from Aurelious Alberga to Toni Stone, April 13, 1953. Bartlow-Reed private archive.
     
    21 . Pollock, 53.
     
    22 . Pollock, 244;
Chicago Defender
, April 18, 1953.
     
    23 .
Kansas City Call
, May 29, 1953; Greenville (Mississippi)
Delta Democrat Times
, May 4, 1953.
     
    24 . Norfolk (Virginia)
Journal and Guide
, May 18, 1953.
     
    25 . Pollock, 110, 114;
Chicago Defender,
April 15, 1953.
     
    26 . Ernie Banks file, the Ashland Collection, National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, Inc., Cooperstown, NY.
     
    27 . Ibid.
     
    28 . Ibid.
     
    29 . Toni Stone interview with Larry Lester, January 3, 1991. Lester private archive.
     
    30 . Ernie Banks interview with the author, September 4, 2009.
     
    31 .
Kansas City Call
, May 22, 1953.
     
    32 . Pollock, 244.
     
    33 . Toni Stone interview with Bill Kruissink.
     
    34 . Pollock, 137.
     
    35 . Ibid., 305.
     
    36 . Ibid., 141–142.
     
    37 . Ibid., 137.
     
    38 . Indianapolis Clowns file, National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, Inc., Cooperstown, NY.
     
    39 .
Chicago Defender
, May 28, 1953.
     
    40 . Ibid., May 25, 1953.
     
    41 . Toni Stone interview with Bill Kruissink.
     
    42 . Opening Day coverage from
Kansas City Call
, May 22, 1953;
Kansas City Call
, May 24;
Kansas City Call,
May 29, 1953; Chicago
Defender
, May 16, 1953;
Chicago Defender
, May 28, 1953;
Pittsburgh Courier
, June 6, 1953; Norfolk (Virginia)
Journal and Guide
, May 29, 1953.
     
    43 .
Chicago Defender
, May 28, 1953;
Pittsburgh Courier
, May 30, 1953.
     
    44 . Pollock, 63.
     
    45 .
Pittsburgh Courier
, June 20, 1953.
     
    46 .
Kansas City Call
, May 5, 1953.
     
    47 . Doug Grow, “League of Her Own: Tomboy Stone Dead at Age 75,” Minneapolis–Saint Paul
StarTribune
, November 5, 1996.
     
    48 . “Lady Ball Player,” 52.
     
    49 .
Pittsburgh Courier
, June 20, 1953.
     
    50 . Norfolk (Virginia)
Journal and Guide
, June 20, 1953.
     
    51 . Dr. J. B. Martin, “Negro League President Comments,”
Los Angeles Sentinel
, June 11, 1953.
     
    52 .
Chicago Defender
, June 25, 1953.
     
    53 .
Dallas Morning News
, February 17, 1999.
     
    54 .
Washington Post
, July 13, 1953.
     
    55 .
Atlanta Daily World
, August 24, 1953.
     
    56 . Letter from Aurelious Alberga to Toni Stone, July 30, 1953. Bartlow-Reed private archive.
     
    57 . Bob Hayes, “To This Ms., Diamond Is Made of Dirt,”
San Francisco Examiner
, May 4, 1976.
     
    58 . Pollock, 244.
     
    59 .
Kansas City Call
, July 10, 1953;
Chicago Defender
, July 2, 1953.
     
    60 . Doug Grow, “She Wasn’t Afraid to Swing for the Fences,”